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| From: | Robert Thorsby |
| Subject: | Re: [Groff] Treatment of annotation paragraphs in refer |
| Date: | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:04:09 +1000 |
On 2006.06.20 06:55 Bill Ward wrote:
I'm using refer to print out an annotated bibliography, and would like for the annotation paragraph to contain troff commands for paragraph breaks, and maybe even pic diagrams or code fragments. However, refer turns the annotation text into one long string defined using the .ds command and all troff commands are lost;
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I'm at the point where I need to do more elaborate things that require the text itself to be displayed "as-is", and also use other troff commands and macros that have variable numbers of arguments. Scripting around this problem is proving difficult and esthetically displeasing.
G'day Bill, Is the ".nf" (no fill) primitive what you are looking for? Robert Thorsby
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